Did you subscribe to the recent Christian courting phenomenon and find it did not work? Can it be that the Victorian era standards promoted, skewed the Biblical view of dating? In The Book of Ruth, A Romantic Bible Commentary, Rose N. Warner discusses some dilemma's faced by conservative Christians as they wove their way toward marriage using practices borrowed from the 1800's.
As adherents of the purity movement, Rose N. Warner and her husband Patrick hosted young adult small groups about courtship. But she noticed that Christian men did not approach women. This hit home when her 25-year-old daughter had not yet been asked out. Rose restudied relationships, but this time from the Bible. The study revealed that some concepts about courting, though well-meaning, had been wrong.
Rose is a lifelong Christian and has a blog for Christian women called Keziah's House. She and her husband developed and sponsored the North East Youth Retreat. She is a nurse by profession, a veteran homeschooling mom and a writer by God's commission. You can reach her by going to her website: keziahshouse.com.